The road back from ugly.

Creativity experiment, days 24-34

When last we saw the train wreck of my 40 day experiment, I had all but covered the first three weeks of work.

Day 24: 
Added a wash of titan buff all over the whole thing to obliterate it even further.  Forgot to take a picture of the whole piece, but here's a close up that highlights a tiny bit of text that says "We have stupid".  Love that little bit.

 Day 25:
Time to build up some new layers.
 Glued on a big piece of painted tissue paper

Day 26: Glued on another big piece of painted tissue paper

Day 27: Painted around the orange tissue paper with a wash in a similar tint.  I didn't mean for it to drip down the edge of the blue tissue, but it looks kind of cool.

Day 28: Glued on some tissue paper that had been previously stamped with black circles.

Day 29:  covered that whole upper right corner with a very watered down raw umber.

Day 30: painted big circles with a heavy bodied raw umber

At this point I'm getting really happy again.  I like where it's going.
Time to mess it up!

Day 31:
Rubbed some neutral colored paint inside and around the circles.
Not sure this was a good move.

Day 32:
Rubbed some white paint inside and around some circles.
Definitely not a good move

Day 33:
Use my hand-carved circle stamp to add marks in light brown paint.

Day 34:
Gotta get rid of that white.  Used some watered down acrylics in the original colors to blend that white into the body of the painting.  Then got a little wild and crazy and did a second thing in the same day.  I sprayed some brownish ink in the upper right hand corner and let it drip.

This morning, Max (age 11) came and sat on the art room couch.  He noticed this painting for the first time in 34 days and said "Oh my god, that's beautiful!  When you're done can I have it?"

I think it's finally coming together.
Less than a week to go!